EVE is described by its publisher as an MMORPG and yeah, you have stats and individual ressources and interact with the world and other players. You play a character, a role, the very definition of a role-playing game. Same with The Sims, but offline for yourself and less geopolitical. RPGs are not only games where you directly control a single character or a group of characters and kill stuff, and sometimes pick a lock or something.

Of course they are role-playing games, you completely assume the role of a character in another world, even with stat sheets. What kind of role-playing game is Deus Ex, where you play a pre-defined character in a pre-defined plot? The Masquarade is certainly a janky fan favourite, but hardly revolutionary. CRPGs made a shift, from being tabletop simulators and dungeon crawlers (with MOMA contenders like Rogue, Wizardry, or as you suggested Ultima) to games about narrative manifolds. Disco Elysium would be my pick.

dude has a PhD and the social skills of the paper it’s printed on

They have, EVE Online and The Sims.

Along with a bunch of others.

Let‘s hope

Yeah, it was well received anyway.

If Hogwarts Legacy told me anything, it’s that this unfortunately accomplishes nothing and most HP fans in the best case either don’t care or in the worst case even align with JKRs views.

It‘s not a news article.

Yeah, they link to other stores without offering a native purchase or download, they don’t get indexed. Not a new rule, and a rather sensible one. The product page is still available via linking.

People are so angry in here that they didn’t catch the obvious sarcasm.

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There aren’t any other options than credit cards in the US to pay without cash? edit: sorry for asking

Their managers are also call center employees who will filter that noise out. That’s one of the reasons to employ a call center.

And what‘s an underpaid, outsourced call center agent supposed to do? This will do nothing. Stop buying shit with their services.

Grain of salt? Disco Elysium is the perfect example and Torment would have been a better game without combat. I‘d like to add Citizen Sleeper. I‘m a bit tired of RPG where combat often is the only or favoured option.

Because it’s an article from 2017.

There are Klarna, Paysafecard, Skrill, Sofort, SEPA direct debit and probably many more local services.

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Yeah, Conker‘s Bad Fur Day ran on a Pentium D, which was a doubled Pentium 4 and the emulator didn’t use the second core.